A Rocha International’s Head of Theology, Rev Dr Dave Bookless, is a Christian theologian, author, and environmental advocate best known for his work in creation care — integrating Christian faith with care for the natural world.
This page brings together a collection of books, talks, podcasts, and reflections by Dave Bookless, engaging questions of faith, mission, and the call to care for the living world.
Podcasts and interviews
- Faith, Ecology & Theological Activism (Low Carbon: Higher Power, 2025)
- God is Green (Interview with David DeSteno for ‘How God works: the science behind spirituality’, 2023)
- Human flourishing and Creation (Quo Vadis Institute, 2023)
- Conviction, courage and the changing Church (A Rocha Field Notes Podcast)
- Christian faith and Climate action (JustPeace, 2022)
- Environmental Care (Evangelical Focus, 2015)
Videos and films
All of Life Series
Articles
- Creation Care (Lausanne State of the Great Commission Report, written jointly with Jasmine Kwong, Seth Appiah-Kubi and Jocabed Solano, 2024)
- Reconciliation with Creation (Lecture for Japan Evangelical Theological Society, 2024)
- Climate Change: biblical and theological perspectives (The Middle East Council of Churches Symposium, ‘Ecumenical Perspectives on Climate Change’, Beirut, 2023)
- A Missional Theology of Creation Care (Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Vol. 59:2, 2023)
- Old Testament approaches to creation care: Creation, Covenant and the Prophetic Imagination (Lecture for London School of Theology Summer Conference, 2021)
- Ecological Christology: incarnation, redemption and resurrection in relation to the whole of creation (Lecture for London School of Theology Summer Conference, 2021)
- Creation care and the Workplace (Lausanne Workplace Forum in Manila, Philippines, 2019)
- ‘Let Everything that has breath praise the Lord!’ (The Bible and Biodiversity, for Cambridge Papers, Jubilee Centre, 2014)
- A Famine of Hope: Christian Mission and the search for a sustainable future (The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, 2006)
Books and Selected Chapters
An autobiographical look at how God can recycle all the mess in our lives. Find it here.
Available in eight different languages. Find them all here
Read The Bible and Wildlife Conservation Chapter written by Dave Bookless
- Why should wild nature be preserved? A dialogue between biblical theology and biodiversity conservation. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge (2018).
- The Place of Biodiversity in the Purposes of God, in Green Theology: Muslim and Christian Perspectives, (eds. Lejla Demiri, Mujadad Zaman & Tim Winter, Mohr Siebeck, 2024)
- Environmental Stewardship and Creation Care as a key concern of the global Lausanne Movement, with Las Newman and Ed Brown, in International Handbook of Creation Care and Eco-Diakonia: Concepts and Theological Perspectives of Churches from the Global South, (eds. Daniel
Beros, Eale Bosela, Lesmore Ezekiel et al., World Council of Churches / Regnum, 2022) - For better for worse? The Evangelical movement and the Environment, in For Better for Worse. The Role of Religion in Development Cooperation, (eds. Robert Odén & Tore Samuelsson, Swedish Mission Council, 2019)
- Context or Content? The place of the Natural Environment in World Mission, in Missional Conversations: A Dialogue between Theory and Praxis in World Mission, (eds. Cathy Ross & Colin Smith, SCM,2018)
- Vers une théologie du changement climatique, in Evangile et Changement Climatique, (eds. Émilie Hobbs Hobbs, Jean-Francois Mouhot & Chris Walley, Dossier Vivre de Semailles et Moisson, 2017)
- How does Creation Care belong within an Evangelical Understanding of Mission? in Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church, (eds. Colin Bell & Robert S. White, Lausanne / Hendrickson, 2016)
- Jesus is Lord … of all?’ Evangelicals, Earth Care and the scope of the Gospel, in Creation Care in Christian Mission, (ed. Kapya Kaoma, Regnum Books, Oxford, 2016)
Blogs
- ‘Code Red for humanity’: what does ecological gloom mean for global mission? (The Lausanne Movement, 2021)
A selection of Dave Bookless’ blogs for A Rocha International:
- Migration – human and animal (2025)
- Mangrove theology – how and why to put down roots (2023)
- What virus are you spreading? – thoughts from the pandemic (2020)
- A harrowing time – reflecting on the sudden death of close friends (2019)
- If the word became flesh, should we all become vegan? (2019)
- Earth, wind and fire: a Pentecostal approach to creation care (2019)
- Plastic theology: a theology of how to think about plastic (2018)
- Sabbath for all creation (2018)
- Obsessed with beginnings and endings – Genesis, Revelation and creation care (2016)
- Climate theology (2015)
Blogs on Bible Characters:
- How big is your Jesus? (2015)
- Mary – teenage revolutionary (2014)
- Jonah – save the whale! (2014)
- Hosea – the ecological prophet of loss (2014)
- Jeremiah – a bird’s eye view of the middle-east (2014)
- Why we need the wisdom of Solomon (2014)
- King David – eco-poet (2014)
- Ruth – economic migrant or environmental refugee? (2014)
- Noah – beyond the blockbuster (2014)
- Adam meets Lynn White Jr – an imaginary encounter between the first human and a vocal critic of Christian attitudes to nature (2014)
- Job – humbled and healed by nature (2014)
